When Archibald Baird was born in 1851, in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Baird, was 49 and his mother, Mary Brownlie, was 27. He lived in Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861 and Milton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1871. In 1871, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as student in e c training college for teachers. He died on 16 March 1877, in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 26.
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Scottish:
from a common pronunciation of Bard in Scotland.
occupational name from Gaelic bàrd ‘bard, poet, minstrel’, or of Gaelic Mac an Baird ‘son of the bard’.
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